On average, I am told, it takes about seven minutes to make an Eggdose sandwich. If you have to take pictures of it before you take a bite, the wait is longer. And, if I am honest, kind of excruciating.
In the pop-up’s Maple Dose, for example ($12.99), the fluffiest of French-style, soft-scrambled eggs flanked by planks of smoky, thick-cut bacon and an insulating layer of lightly tangy cheddar beckon from between Beneficial Breads brioche which, in this sandwich, is transformed into French toast. It features a flurry of powdered sugar and comes with a small container of organic maple syrup for drizzling.
Like all of the Eggdose sandwiches, the Maple Dose is adeptly wrapped and boxed for transport, a method I believe helps it set a little, enabling slightly easier eating and creating a gorgeous show by turning the sandwich on its side to be admired, ogled, coveted. And coveted they are. Images of these sandwiches, along with tantalizing footage of chef/owner Jason Suarez commandeering an assemblage of egg-washed pans at the Eggdose pop-ups, have made these breakfast beauties something of a social-media sensation on Instagram ( @eggdosefl ), where video of folks happily queueing for doses of their own have drawn even more who are eager to get in line.
This will add considerable time to your seven-minute sojourn, but it’s not slowing business down any. And now that I’ve tried ’em, I can vouch that these girthy goodies are pure breakfast decadence. I see why so many are willing to wait.
Get to Eggdose on a weekday, though, and you can cut that wait considerably. We enjoyed ours on a Friday at a table in front of Sunset Bodega (300 S. Eola Drive in Orlando, 407-286-3037 ), a cheery, charming corner store in downtown’s South Eola district, where the elder Suarez and his sons, Matias and Sam, sling sandos in the shade of their tent two days a week.
This is a family affair, Matias, 20, tells me, one that his father conceived after many years in the breakfast-focused hotel kitchens back home in Bogotá, Colombia, and then here in Orlando, where they relocated five years ago. His dad’s local resume includes sous chef stints in both Marriott- and Disney-property kitchens. These days, Eggdose is a full-time effort.
The idea? “A gourmet and high-end but quick-service breakfast,” says Matias Suarez. “A classic breakfast, but we take it to another level using really good ingredients and different methods of cooking.” Take those eggs, for example, cooked low and slow and with quite a bit of butter in the scrambled sandwiches or perfectly poached in the Benedict ($12), the outfit’s most popular offering.
“It’s very simple,” says Suarez, “and comes with our homemade hollandaise on top.” We opted out of the sauce, instead luxuriating in two luscious yolk pops to give the sandwich killer creaminess. Eggdose’s earliest popups in Clermont, like their signature scrambles, started slow, “but it really started taking off around April or May, which I think was a combination of everything — the branding that made all the packaging and the tent more appealing and working harder on our Instagram marketing, really pushing the videos.
” It’s worked. And now the Eggdose team has a solid schedule: Thursday and Friday at Sunset Bodega , Saturday at East End Market and Sunday at the Orlando Farmers Market . That’s what Sunset Bodega owner Dennis Abbate loved the most, and why he reached out to connect.
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You can’t have that kind of sandwich and only be open one day a week.” Whether tacos or egg sandwiches, the bodega’s a lovely place for a local meal, with shady tables and a full complement of beverages (including beer and wine) inside. Their custom coffee and smoothie program is one I’d surely hit up if I lived nearby.
Lots do. Abbate says there are roughly 3,000-plus apartments and condos within a two-block walk. Moreover, though, I’d flag this spot for an Eggdose fix to avoid those weekend lines.
(And maybe grab a fresh Olde Hearth Bread and a bottle of wine to take home.) Eggdose has other offerings, too, including a steak special ($16.50) that saw two tender slabs of picanha paired with a fried egg, cheddar and cotija cheeses and caramelized onions with chipotle aioli adding a nice zing of both color and heat.
It was hard to pick a favorite. The sweetness of the buttery-warm brioche permeates as you go in for each bite, adding complexity in layers onto something that seems so simple — an egg sandwich — but, at the same time, isn’t. As the name suggests, the menu is centered on eggs.
However, says Suarez, when Eggdose opens its location inside the City Food Hall in Orlando’s Ivanhoe Village neighborhood in the coming weeks, the roster of offerings will expand, with breakfast bowls, sides and beverages to start. In the meantime, he says, it’s something fun. Memorable.
Something most people want. “It’s your daily dose of egg!” Find me on Facebook, TikTok, Twitter or Instagram @amydroo or on the OSFoodie Instagram account @orlando.foodie .
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